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  • Pokanoket Heritage Day

    Rogers Free Library, 525 Hope Street, Bristol, RI 525 Hope Street, Warren, RI, United States

    A free event to give visitors a perspective on Pokanoket life in the East Bay (Sowams) from past centuries to the present day through dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling and displays on Pokanoket history and culture.

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  • King Philip’s War presentation by David Weed

    Dr. David Weed, Coordinator of the Sowams Heritage Area Project, will offer a 90-minute presentation to the Friends of the Somerset Library group at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 8, 2025. The talk will focus on the outbreak of the war that took place not far from Somerset in June of 1675, as well as […]

  • Surviving Enslavement During the War for New England 1675-1676

    2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the start of The War for New England (King Philip's War). In response to this important assertion of the sovereignty of Dawn land's Indigenous peoples, colonial officials instituted a widespread policy of captivity, enslavement, and trafficking people out of Dawnland into the Caribbean, Mexico, North Africa, the Azores, and […]

  • King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict

    Medfield Public Library 468 Main St, Medfield, MA, United States

    2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the start of King Philip’s War, a brutal, two-year struggle between New England’s Native Americans and their English neighbors. Fought in southern New England from 1675 to 1676, the War ended fifty years of peace and changed the cultural and political landscape of New England forever. Schultz will review […]

  • King Philip’s War Book Club Meetings

    Rogers Free Library, 525 Hope Street, Bristol, RI 525 Hope Street, Warren, RI, United States

    The Bristol Historical and Preservation Society and Rogers Free Library are commemorating the 350th anniversary of the King Philip War with a Book Club session on April 5th. On June 20, 1675, Pokanoket warriors killed seven colonists in Swansea in retaliation for a series of injustices suffered at the hands of the English. Generally considered […]